Historical society welcomes Edie Clark Sept. 3

On Thursday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m., the Franklin Historical Society will present, at its new home at Webster Place, a real treat for those who love "tasty" bits of New England lore!

Made possible through the NH Humanities Council, noted author Edie Clark who regularly appears in YANKEE Magazine, will discuss "Baked Beans and Fried Clams: How Food Defines a Region." The title of the program speaks for itself. You can almost smell the beans baking and the clams frying. For those whose appetites will be whetted by the speaker's subject, the Webster Place Recovery Center will be catering the appropriate refreshment fare.

Clark has been a writer and editor of books and magazines for the past 30 years. She has written extensively about New England in award-winning feature stories for Yankee magazine, where she served variously as senior editor, senior writer and fiction editor for nearly 25 years. In her hundreds of published articles, she has established her reputation as someone who writes about ordinary lives changed by one extraordinary act or circumstance. Her ongoing column for the magazine, now titled "Mary's Farm," has been a popular feature of the magazine for the past 18 years. Her memoir, "The Place He Made," which has just been reissued, was described by The New York Times Book Review as "a triumph of the human spirit [which] may take its quiet place among the best of the literature."

She wrote the text to Monadnock Tales, a fusion of music and poetry which has been performed several times in the Monadnock region. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, and has been a visiting writer at the University of Northern Michigan. She is currently contributing editor to Yankee magazine. She has taught in the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston and is a professor at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. She teaches writing in workshops and writing programs and gives frequent talks throughout New England. Her other books include "The View from Mary's Farm," a collection of essays about her home in Harrisville, and "Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers," a food memoir with recipes from each decade.

The presentation is free and open to all. When arriving at the Historical Society's Webster/Tay House, please park only in the provided spaces around the building or on the right side of the road as you enter the property. In the case of an overflow crowd, the meeting will move from our building to the Center's chapel, only 100 feet from our back door. As this is a Humanities Council program, attendees will be asked to sign in as they enter. If anyone wishes to become a member of the Society, information and applications will be made available. Donations for the continued restoration of the Webster/Tay House or to increase our museum display capability, are always gratefully accepted.

The Franklin Historical Society's web page, with all kinds of information about the organization's activities, can be found at www.histsoc.org.

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